Category Archives: history

spot the monster

Führer or Faker? Sixteen snaps of the creep of the century – or is he? [Link updated 2006]

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dismal liberty

“Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question“, source of the phrase ‘dismal science’. . . . with regard to the West Indies, it may be laid down as a principle, which no eloquence . . . can invalidate or hide, except for a short time … Continue reading

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Herbert Spencer

Roderick Long defends Herbert Spencer: So what common ground could there be between Spencer and the eugenicists? Both, to be sure, were “Social Darwinists,” if that means that both thought there were important sociopolitical lessons to be drawn from evolutionary … Continue reading

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1778

Rethinking the Articles of Confederation, by Scott Trask The American confederation was destined to become a free-trade area, even without a consolidated union. Hamilton, in Federalist No. 12, all but admitted, and complained, that such would be the case. He … Continue reading

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the spirit of ’89

The English Bill of Rights was enacted in October 1689. The US BoR was submitted for ratification in September 1789. Anybody happen to know if the centennial coincidence was played up in the rhetoric of the time?

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QotD

Daniel Webster: It is hardly too strong to say that the [US] Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.

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my shining city

Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will [America’s] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the … Continue reading

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